Direction
with regard
to the inventory. |
124 DIRECTIONS for
EXrs and ADMrs.
which the time of twelve months is allowed, are
the remaining parts of the executors or administrators
duly.
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Method to be
observed in
the paying of
debts; |
Little is to be said concerning the manner of
collecting debts due to the deceased; executors
and administrators are to demand, and if need
be, sue for any such debt, or debts; give acquittances
in their own names, and in every
respect, act as the deceased would or could do,
were he alive. But the payment of debts due
from the deceased to others, is attended with
more difficulty; chiefly owing to the order in
which debts ought to be paid, and the proper
vouchers to be procured by creditors, to entitle
them to a payment of their demands. For the
well understanding of which, I must refer the
reader to page 23, under the title of accounts,
where the several vouchers to be produced, together
with their proper probates, are particularized:
they will there find, that, after the
debts due to the king or to the lord proprietary
when for their proper use and benefit only, are discharged,
all other debts are divided into four
classes or degrees, to wit.
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The first class, contains judgments, or decrees of
a court of record.
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The second class, consists of recognizances. |
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